Senior Engineering Manager, WebAssembly

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Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development.

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Senior Engineering Manager, WebAssembly

At Fastly, our technology stretches from front-end web development, down through to kernel work. The WebAssembly team is responsible for building our industry-leading ahead-of-time compiled WebAssembly engine, Lucet, and our WebAssembly execution daemon. Additionally, they contribute to WebAssembly standards efforts and a variety of open-source projects that are used by Fastly and others in the WebAssembly community.

We are looking for someone with a background in engineering management as well as community collaboration. Being a manager for this team requires personal skills, engineering knowledge, and management skills. You’ll be responsible for ensuring the success of the team and the career development of the individuals on it. Further, you’ll also be the point person for collaborating with other engineering teams, product management, program management, as well as security. 

The WebAssembly team’s work impacts Fastly internally as well as many others in the community. You’ll be leading, coordinating, and continuing to deepen our involvement with the broader community, including standards groups.

What You'll Do

  • Manage the engineering team responsible for Fastly’s WebAssembly engine
  • Mentor and provide regular feedback to engineers in the team
  • Ensure each member of the team has what they need to be successful
  • Provide clear career development goals and plans for individuals on the team
  • Recruit, hire, and retain excellent software engineers
  • Work collaboratively across engineering, product, and security to plan and build our Compute@Edge platform
  • Clearly communicate upward and outward to set expectations for roadmaps and deliverables
  • Help guide the design and implementation of our WebAssembly compiler, runtime, and server
  • Deliver tools and documentation to engineers on other teams, and train and support them as they use those tools

What We're Looking For

  • Proven success leading teams and executing effectively with a distributed team
  • Extensive experience guiding, nurturing, and supporting a strong and empathetic engineering culture
  • Experience leading teams to craft high quality, maintainable code
  • Excellence in collaboration and communication with a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • A history of positive community collaboration
  • 4+ years engineering management or team lead experience
  • 6+ years experience in software engineering
  • Empathy for the users of tools and systems produced by your teams
  • A working knowledge of C, and an interest in learning Rust if you do not yet know it

We value a variety of voices, so this is not a laundry list. You’ll be a good candidate if you have experience in SOME of these:

  • Managing and growing multiple teams
  • Planning large-scale projects including greatly varying levels of abstraction
  • Collaborating in industry/community partnerships
  • Participating in community standardization processes and working groups
  • Development of products for developers
  • Development of high performance, large-scale, or global multi-tenant systems
  • Writing and debugging assembly and machine code
  • Understanding of how modern compilers work
  • Designing, writing and debugging network daemons
  • Contributing to or writing a compiler or operating system, even a toy or research one
  • Rust, or some of the languages that influenced the design of Rust
  • Functional programming (without the zealotry, please)
  • Auditing C software for vulnerabilities
  • Ability to collaborate with academia

Why Fastly?

  • We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
  • We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.
  • We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
  • We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
  • We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply!


Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

Employment decisions at Fastly are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability*, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Fastly encourages applicants from all backgrounds.

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